On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 1:17 AM, Andy Townsend <ajt1...@gmail.com> wrote: > That's simply rubbish. Tags on an OSM object describe it in the real world. > They should be verifiable. Whether an OSM object has a wikidata tag on it > is essentially irrelevant as far as OSM is concerned - it's just a primary > key into an external database. External data consumers might find the data > in that database useful, but they can also get to it via wikipedia tags > (which, being human-readable, are more likely to be maintained), so it's > really not a big deal.
I hope everyone realizes that there are Wikidata items for which there is no Wikipedia article. So you cannot always find it via Wikipedia tags. And at least JOSM shows a human readable name of a Wikidata item besides the Q-number. I think iD does this as well. m. (who manually adds Wikidata references for Flemish churches after creating the Wikidata items). _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
